Seventeen years old, blood pressure through the roof, a positive COVID test — and a hospital rule that allowed exactly one visitor. That was the night Aniyah Gore gave birth to her son, and Dakwon Robinson, the baby’s father, was not in the room.
Two years later, the couple was over — no scandal, no reunion, no reason ever given. Just a quiet split in the summer of 2024, before their son turned two. This is the story of the promise they made in that hospital, and why it could not hold.
Love at First Sight in the School Hallway
She was the honor-roll student and cheerleader; he was the school’s basketball star. By 17, they were, in her own words from the Season 6 trailer, meant to be together forever — love at first sight. Nine months after a lapse with her birth control, they were expecting a baby.
Aniyah graduated a year early in the summer of 2022; Dakwon walked away from basketball to get ready for the winter baby. His own father had never been in the picture, and Dakwon was determined to be better. But her mother Ashley, a teen mom herself at 17, did not believe in him. She made it clear she would be a big part of the baby’s upbringing, and that Dakwon would not be staying nights — not even after the birth.
One Visitor, and It Was Not Him
The pregnancy turned dangerous: Aniyah developed preeclampsia, landed in the emergency room, then tested positive for COVID while in labor. The hospital’s COVID rules allowed a single visitor in the delivery room — and Dakwon was shut out by a mix of the illness, the rules and her mother’s decisions, according to reports. Their son, Aniyis Daquan Gore, arrived in December 2022 without his father in the room.
In the hospital afterward, the two teenagers made each other a vow: nothing else would ever come between them or their parenting again. It was the kind of promise that sounds unbreakable at 17.
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At the christening, the new parents tried to work out what their family would look like. Then came the episode that summed up the whole relationship in a single scene: Dakwon gave Aniyah a promise ring — and in the same breath announced he was enlisting in the military. Over lunch, both admitted they worried about staying faithful if he left for the Air Force. The ring said forever. The enlistment said goodbye.
The Quiet Split and Two Very Different Lives
By the summer of 2024, it was over. Aniyis was not yet two, and Aniyah and Dakwon had gone their separate ways for good, joining the splits in our 2026 status check of every couple. They have never said why.
Today, the two 21-year-olds live opposite lives. Aniyah, in Norfolk, Virginia, has primary custody of Aniyis, now almost four, and is building a career as an event host, model and promoter, according to reports. Dakwon graduated high school on time in 2023 and has chosen a quiet life away from the spotlight, co-parenting his son and holding on to his dream of enlisting.
In January 2026, watching the Season 7 trailer introduce a 13-year-old dad-to-be, Aniyah wrote: “He won’t be able to experience the simplicity… because he’s going to have the responsibility of an adult.” It read less like a comment and more like a warning from someone who had lived it. Months later, Jenna Ronan shared the Season 8 casting call on Instagram, and the show Aniyah once starred in began looking for its next generation.
So was Aniyah and Dakwon’s story over the night the hospital door closed on Dakwon — or the day he put a promise ring on her finger and an enlistment paper on the table? Team “the vow should have held,” or Team “two kids who grew up and grew apart”?
